Lauge Dideriksen
Curriculum Vitae
Lauge Dideriksen, BA MA
(Last update: December 2025)
Lauge Dideriksen is a Danish music scholar based in Vienna. In his work, he examines time in music and music in time, particularly the notion of rhythmical weight, by bringing findings from perceptual and ethnomusicological studies of music into dialogue with ideas from philosophy, cognitive science, and music theory. In addition to his academic work, Dideriksen writes on music and musical culture for a variety of publications. Dideriksen holds degrees in composition and ethnomusicology, and has played for dance on the fiddle since the age of eight.
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Education |
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2025–2028:
2022–2025: |
PhD (cotutelle) in Philosophy and Musicology at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, and the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
MA in Ethnomusicology at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. Thesis, The Verticality of Time, or, an Initial Investigation of Rhythmic Weight, supervised by Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Ulrich Morgenstern (graduated with distinction). |
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2016–2019: |
BA in Composition at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag with Richard Barrett, Yannis Kyriakides, Cornelis de Bondt, and Jan van der Putte. |
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2016–2019: |
Conducting studies with Lucas Vis. |
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2015–2016: |
Composition studies at Aarhus MGK with Niels Rønsholdt (graduated with distinction). |
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2014–2016: |
Conducting studies with a.o. Michael Delchev. |
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2013–2015: |
Jazz violin studies at Aarhus MGK with ao. Kristoffer Dolatko and Thomas Sejthen. |
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Selected Voluntary Professional Positions |
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2016–2021: |
Chairman of UNM DK—Young Nordic Music Days Denmark (trans-Nordic festival organisation for young composers supported by major arts funds). Roles included PR and social media, fundraising, and various administrative tasks. I also helped found the organisation’s archive. |
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2017–2019: |
Co-organiser of and moderator at RCC—Research Concert Cycle at Studio Loos, Den Haag, The Netherlands (artist-run platform for artistic research and alternative performance practices). Roles included moderating debates and conducting stage-interviews, as well as administration, production, and curation. |
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2015–2018 |
Board member of AUT in Aarhus, Denmark (local and national music organisation supported by major arts funds). Roles included curating and producing concerts, as well as fundraising. |
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Selected Teaching and Mentoring Experience |
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18.–22.8.2023 |
Faculty for traditional dance at the annual summer course of the Austrian Folk Dance Association (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Volkstanz). |
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2016–present |
Musician for various courses in traditional and improvised folk dance at a.o. Wiener Volksliedwerk and Schrammel.Klang.Festival. |
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12.–15.11.2019 |
Faculty for violin at PipenBockTreffen (DE). |
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Selected Fieldwork |
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2020–(ongoing) |
Regular fieldwork in Poland, including both documentary and participatory modalities in urban and rural contexts. During the COVID-19 pandemic, parts of this fieldwork was conducted online. |
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2023–(ongoing) |
Collecting, cataloguing, and storing materials for a community archive for the Viennese balfolk-community with the dual goal of preserving the community’s history and increasing community sustainability and resilience by documenting organisational know-how. This work is carried out in collaboration with members of the community. |
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7.–12.7.2023 |
Experiment in “visual ethnomusicology” at the festival Les Volcaniques in Saint-Bonnet-prés-Riom, FR. |
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7.–11.6.2023 |
Documentary fieldwork in Amras, Innsbruck for the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. |
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12.–18.5.2023 |
Documentary fieldwork in the Suiti-region of Latvia for the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. |
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Selected Lectures and Conferences |
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11.2025
21.8.2023 |
Paper: Musical Foundations at the Interpenetration of Nature and Culture. Vladimír Karbusický (1925–2002): An Academic at the Crossroads of Disciplines and Ideologies, Prague, CZ.
Invited Speaker: So What is Ethnomusicology, Anyway?. Annual summer course of the Austrian Folk Dance Association (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Volkstanz), Gmunden, AT. |
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29.4.2023 |
Invited speaker: Fiddle and Foot—A Preliminary Look at Rhythmic Coordination in Recordings of Landler. Analytische Zugänge zur Volksmusik heute (Analytical Approaches to Traditional Music Today), Vienna, AT. |
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15.4.2023 |
Paper: Ways of Writing Time—Notational Strategies for the Transcription of Fiddle Music from Central Poland. IX Krajowe Seminarium Etnomuzykologiczne UTRWALIĆ TRADYCJĘ. DŹWIĘK–SŁOWO–RUCH–OBRAZ (9th National Ethnomusicological Seminar), Warsaw, PL. |
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12.11.2022 |
Paper: Mapping an Idiomatic Anatomy—Variation and Instrumentalism in the Playing of Józef Zaraś. Motif-Centricity and Micro-Variation in Traditional Music, mdw–University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, AT. |
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4.4.2022 |
Guest lecture: Non-Geometrical Rhythm in European Traditional Music—Conceptualisation, Transcription, and Notation. Institut für Volksmusikforschung |
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30.09.2021 |
Paper: Non-Geometrical Rhythm in European Traditional Music—Conceptualisation, Transcription, and Notation. European Voices VI: Singing, Song, and Sound. Vienna, AT. |
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Awards |
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2025
2019 |
Würdigungspreis der mdw (Prize of Honour of the mdw) for excellent achievement.
Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Talentlegat for composition. |
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Publications |
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Forthcoming
08.12.2025 |
‘“Ein Schlagartiger Einbruch Der Ewigkeit in Die Zeit”—On the Spatiality of Musical Time’. Swiss Journal of Musicology, New Series 42.
Dideriksen, Lauge. 2025. ‘Non-Geometrical Rhythm in European Traditional Music—Conceptualisation, Transcription, and Notation’. In Singing, Song, and Sound: European Voices VI. Ardian Ahmedaja (ed.). Vienna: Böhlau. 243-273.
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Journalism |
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12.12.2025
03.2025 |
Historier på Rulle: Crankiens Revival. Reportage for the Danish online magazine Resonator.
Zum Geburtstag eines Jodelkriegers. Portrait of fiddler and musicologist Hermann Fritz for the Austrian print magazine Bockkeller. |
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27.12.2023 |
Playing for Dance. Radio programme for the Austrian broadcaster Radio Orange. |
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25.08.2023 |
“People come for the music, but come back for the food!”. Picture essay for the Danish online magazine Resonator. |
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10.08.2023 |
“I Want to Bourrée Bourrée”. Picture essay for the Danish online magazine Resonator. |
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